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? , t -M : : t - vol. }yy THE GREAT FOREST FIRES. IV 'MIL> I. ? * ... ' ........ * 1 ... mi... 11VIUII ??! There arc Miles of Country Without a Human Habitation?The Cyclonic I'fOm'PSS ol't tie FillU1CH. Tins details of the groat forest fires in Wisconsin and Minnesota are sickening and fearful in the extreme. From the dispatches sent from day to day, in which the particulars are given as the dreadful tales are unfolded by the survivors, we cull the following summary : Inastrotoh of territory twenty-six miles long, and from one to llfteou miles wide, not a single human habitation has been left standing and in every part of tho track of the flames Ijodics of men, women, children, horses and cattle were found. The position of every body found Aut&ulo of Hinckley shows that HM?/or of some kind was sought by tho agonized sufferers and tho dead are found in holes, behind stumps, trees, marsh depressions and in every water course. The general shape of the fire-swept district is like a lingo cigar with a southwestern end about Mission Creek and the upper terminal a few miles * cast of Finlayson or Rutledgo. From tikis a number of branches extend northward to beyond tho tracks of the eastern Minnesota Railway. The work of the flatnos has been complete and cyclonic in character. Whoro the fire held sway not a single tree is standing except as a blackened stump. Thousands of overturned trees are lying prostrate, and the roots were burning fiercely when the welcome rain began to fall. A careful canvass reveals tho fact that soventy-two settlers' homes, outside of towns, 1. As near as can be learned, thercr^mjro 500 people in those homes. At Brookdale, a littlo town, on the Eastern Minnesota Railroad, south of Hinckley, about niucty persons took refuge in the water of a small crej1'- Out of this place sixty-s^ven dead" boa'.'"* "fro taken '""l huriod, and some tint. 1 !'lnf P? ?D8, ??ro rescued, tt few "hue. " bu,"")?d; Sargent, of tho St. Puu. ""'.i l/'ridh Road, has been wnrklncr fn?? ' ? r> - "* ** IB t road with an improvised train, cow. ing of throe hand ears spliced togothei with planks, picking up all and identifying tho bodies of the dead. All the bodies wore carefully examined and in many cases were fully identitied and in every ease a complete record was made of everything that could possibly lead to identification. By tho Duluth relief committees, most remarkable work has boon done, without regard to age, box or social standing. Hundreds of iiooplo including those of tho very highest social standing in tho city have been working day and night since Saturday night. They have organized thoroughly into - all needed sub-committees and have in S a systematic way taken care of men and women, children and babies. Over $8,000 in cash has been given for temporary relief and goods and clothing valued at as much moro have been given Nearly all those who survived tho torrible forest tires in Northern Minnesota have now been removed to places of safety in Superior and Duluth and as a heavy rain has quenched the Humes thoro will bo no further eas unities. The work of searching' for the dead is progressing in earnest. Fiftyfour bodies were buried at Sandstone, most of them charred beyond recognition, and they wore buried wherever found. When the relief train reached Sandstone not a sign of a building was left in the town. Around or in the ruins of each house were found several human bodies. The living inhabitants of the town wero brought into Superior at midnight. At Hinckley .'{28 bodies wero lying in the streets. They are hoing burled us rapidly as possible by a committeo from Pino City. At Pokogania on the Groat Northern there are twenty-eight corpses. They are still lying unburied, tho rest of the people having left the place. At Partridge only two are dead, though not a building is standing. It is impossible to tell where Partridge was, as tho wholo surrounding country is in ashes. Tho special train sent out by citizens of Minneapolis bearing supplies and medical relief to tho suffering people of llinckloy and vicinity had on hoard olovon peu snsand surgeons with a full supply ? ??,/ '># and instruments and fifty oauvas cots. Pino City was the main objective point, for it was hero that tho relief supplies were to be distributed and tho temporary hospitals had been oponed. The medical committeo woro met at the depot hy Sthc heroic little wife of Dr. Barnum, tho local physician, who with hor husband had been working day and night from tho time tho first victims were brought in, until both wero utmost completely worn out. "Oh, we'ro so glad tfAI,l?A H \ tvi/M.i A/?hU/vd Al. - liiii jruu Luiiiuj uiiuuDU m/uuuu tuu lltblC womun to Dr. McDonald, as ho stopped from the train. Tho platform was crowded with inquisito but glad-lookin^ people with blackened and scarred faoes and bandaged hands and arms, boaring pathetic witness of the terrible oxperionce. Near the edge of tho platform restod acollln box in which were tho romainjv^ what was once tho general pasaeW^d Cgont of the Winnipeg and Duluti.??~v?M{l. Tho poor fellow was ono of the passongors on Engineer Jim Hoot's ill-fated train and tho body was found yostorday morning, a short distanco from tho burned train, but so charred and disfigured that its identity was only established by tho name printed on tho inside of a burnod fragment of a linen collar. IIo had been In the habit of coming down from Duluth overy Saturday to spend Sunday with his family and was on his way homo when lie mot his death. Tho correspondent found that notwithstanding tho reports received, matters relating to tho numbor and condition of tho wounded and tho no cossity for supplies had boon ^roatly oxugj,'crutcd so far as IMno City was conoornod. I talead of 200 wounded to bo eared fo^MiPi'd were a baro twenty and many ofthoso had not boon seriously hurt. All tho Injured havo boon brought in too, and it was learned that oven thoso at Duluth scarcely outnumbered those at Pino City. It appoars that it was a oloan-cut case of eithor lifo or doath. Most of thoso who escaped did so with little or no physical hurt. The most severe and dangerous cases in Pino City had been taken to tho improvised hospital at tho rink, and hero nine of tho medical relief sot to work whilo tho other two went on to Hinckley. Only a)>out twelve par ! ties wore being eared for at the rink, but all in all, they presented a pitiful |and heart-rending spectacle. Nearly all the patients are Scaudanaviaus. Tiio women who lost all their | relatives are maniacs, as well as danI gerously burned. Between Pino City land llinekloy the country was swept bare of everything living or green. At Hinckley only alx>ut a dozen of the tents put up by the State uuthoritios were occupied. There is not a building left standing. Every person there was engaged in recovering, identifying or burying the dead. THK DEATH ROLL SWELLS. The Work of Burying the Deatl and Caring tor the Living. Pine City, Minn., Sept. *1.?The general executive committee inehargo of relief work in this section has made a report of dead bodies recovered thus far as follows : llinekloy 351, Sandstone 77, Miller, called Sandstone Junction, 18, between Skunk Lake and Miller 42, Poke Gamma 32, in lumber camps 50 ; total. 450. Ghouls arc at work in tho vicinity of Sandstone. Today a party from Duluth under James Bailey caiuo down to help bury the dead, and while searching around at noon came upon a gang who had broken open boitiu safes, and when the Bailey party met them they had just found a cistern from which they had pulled tifteon dead bodies, and had robbed them of jewelry, rings, trinkets, etc., and wore throwing the bodies back into tho well. The party were unarmed, and the ghouls took to their heels and escaped. A frame powder magazine at Sandstone, a portion of which was loft .1 lt?.? ..?wl ...KG.U ....... ....... Mil mi ni^; ill in iv i nun wus i:iii|iiyf wua torn down for material for uoflins. Tho lire was seen by the Sundstono people four hours before it struck the town and everything was packed up in readiness to move to Kettle Kiver, oust of the village. Uoforo any one was aware of tho real danger tho lire came upon the town from the north east and west and firing the whole town inside of live minutes. Many were unable to reach the river and died in tho streets. A blacksmith burned to a crisp in his shop, where ho was shoeing a horse, y sadden was tho lire not a thing was , "?<d in thirty minutos tho whole ?fnvn wuu w on tho earth. Those who roamed nver .-emained most of the night. The' ^rvivors are entirely destitute and >VO *ot e.von clothing to their baeks, ex',0Pl aa is provided by tho relief oon.'ulll'Y^H! Whole families are wiped out. 1 sident Sum Hill of tho eastern branch of tho Northern Pacific, came up from Hinckley this morning and took a northern train over the St. Paul and Duluth to within nine miles of Sand' stono, and then walked over. The big Mastern Minnesota bridge over tho Kottlo ltiver lias a stee.' arch in tho middle 180 feet long and is t?till intact, though wooden approaches are burned. " The scone of deatli and ruin a.'^ug the road is a terrible one," says M Hill, "not a sign of lifo is anywhere to be seen, all is a blackened, charred mass of ruins. Dead animals and human beings are every where and they are buried wherever found. There wore many peculiar features of tho lire. In one plueo, where all olse was burned and blackened all around, wo found ft wagon with tho lmy in the box intact, while tho horses wore deftd. There is yet to be closed up on the Minnesota a gap of twelvo miles between Hinckley and Duluth, eight miles of which are between Hinckley and Sandstone. There are four,miles in St. Cloud direction, which will closed up by tomorrow. I noticed in one place some freight .car wheels which were melted, while not three hundred feet away was anothoi' oar untouched." Judge Netluiway, of Stillwater, has been one of tho most active in relief work, and bus boon all over tho .surrounding country. Ho found ftho family of Jack Hobinson. man, wife and seven children all dead and hardl y recognizable and also found J. O. Ltowley, passenger agent of the Minnesota and Winnipeg. Several miles northwest of Hinckley today he came to a spot where a farm house had stood. In front was a well and ovor to the loft could bo seen five human bodies and tho bodies of several animals. Judge Nothaway went at once to tho well to seo if anyono was there, and found down in the bottom, a littlo 12-yoar-old boy in eight inches of water, who had lived there since Saturday with nothing to eat. The littlo fellow was pulled up and said ho had been put down there when tho fire was seen, and an "awful bad smoke had passed over him and it was awful hot." Ho asked tho judge if ho knew whoro his father anc mother were, and his dog. Judge Nothaway took him on his back to where ho could bo fed, while other parties went back after tho five bodies. A Novel, Mission. ? It seems rather a novol mission on which the editor of tho Dundee Courier detailed Miss P. Mario Imandtand Miss Ucssio Maxwell in February laHt. They were sent on a tour around the world for tho purpose of observing and writing up for uiat paper uio condition 01 women. They are going to look at those 26,000 miles of women with a microscope, but not in the dreary, long-faced way. The project grow out of the burning question of the time?suffrage?the never onding cry for emancipation and restlessness of every woman within earshot of that cry. They aro two charming young womon in overy respect, ready for impressions and in love with their work. Tho tour has been planned for them and undertaken with all the cairaness and dignity and freedom from perspiration that might bo expected from a Scotch journal, but not one whit less entorprising for that. They havo unlimited time, their Scotch thrift never oversteps their credit, and thoy havo as many Idays as thoy liko for a place. Thoy havo two trunks of comfortablo size and not a worry in tho world, unless it is black plagues and strikes. They left Dundee, Scotland, on tho Rthoflast February, wont from there to Kngland, thence to Franco, Italy, Kgypt, China and Japan. From Japan they arrived in San Francisco on tho steamer Poru last wook. Aftor studying tho lifo of women at tho Golden Gato those two energetic young women will visit other largo cities in our countrn in pursuanco of their interesting mission. i i CONWAY, S. C, POLITICAL VIEW8 OF ALL SORTS. YOU MANS ON DEMOCRACY. ll? Views tho Political Hit nut ion TlirouK>> Darlceued Glasses? Kavoru an Independent Movement. The following letter to the editor of tho Columbia Register has boon published, and explains itself: Kditor of the Register: Your communication of tho 1st hist, received this evening and in accordance with your request 1 reply immediately : in this communication addressed to me you say, "Knwing you to l>o a staunch und uncompromising foe of aught that tends to disturb white unity and white supremacy and that your words carry weight and intluonce, ask that you write tho Register a letter giving your views upon tho now Independent movement about to bo started and outlining the duty of tho hour. Hoping for an early roply, 1 am," etc. As to " white unity," that was " disturbed " four years ago when Govornor Tillman, conceiving himself to be "tho only man witli the nerve and the brains and the ability to array tho common people against the aristocracy," for the accomplishment of his own seltish purposes. spread discord and division among tho white people by inaugurating whit he chose to term "a family quarrel " in tha State. As to " white supremacy," it should bo remembered that whilst negro domination in the reconstructed States has been one of tho marked foaturos of the policy of tho Republican party, tho Northern Democracy, through all of LUU |iwiintui VlUISSllillUUH Ol UIO lUSll quarter of a century, has been the unfaltering friend of the South. It was duo to its persistent demands that white supremacy was restored in '7(> and '77 to South Carolina and Louisiana, and its aid was freely given to defeat the force bill and to repeal the election laws. On the other huud, all of these new political organizations which have sprung up like Jonah's gourd, and will wilt about as soon, have generally acted with the ltonublican party against the interests of the South. The Greenbaekors, many of whom woreeleeted, in part, by denouncing Democrats whom they wore trying to defeat as not sufficiently Democratic, when elected wero found voting with the Republicans in the interest of all measures dragooning the South in favor of negro domination. The Populists and Third I'artyitos are no execution to this rule.. Timv won*. bag and baggago into 'the camp of our onomies during the consideration of tho House bill to reduce the tux burdens of tho tariff and placed themselves under tho leadership of tho gentlemen from Maine, Mr. Hoed and Mr. Hoytelje, to prevent the Democrats from oven considering a bill designed to lift the burden of tarilT taxation from tho farmers of tho South ; they joined the Republicans in a body and voted almost solidly against the repeal of tho ten per cent, tax on State banking?a measure, which, if it had been enacted into law, would have given ,r, aut llnancial relief to tho South. These' now departures, wherever they have tak-P11 P'ueo in tho South, have nearly alwuj1'? resulted in un appeal to the negro anu a termination within tho Republican r.^nks witness Mahone, McLano, Tom yVatson and it. F. Kolb. The originator and autocrat' ?' your politlcul faction?for .he dictates it not only as to measures but men?has admitted that he was half Populist in the canvass of 'D2, that he is now, like McLano, a Greenbaekor, and hus served notice on the voters of the State of his early expectation to dosort the Democratic party. J think this " now Independent movement about to bo started " by Governor Tillman and those pledged to support him should bo mot by an immediate reorganization of the Democratic party in tho State, ua J that "the duty of the hour" is for every Democrat who has any manhood or pu'itical principle, or owns any property that binds him to tho State or intcrerttc him in its welfare, to aid this reformation with all his might. As to placing .a Democratic tickot in the Held at this laV' day ; I should be confirmed in my opposition to it were it not for tho bloody lawlessness of the prese?? aouiinisoraMqu ape (>no pro miso o* its continuance by the^egatoc -?a policy of outrago and pi pushed, whieii if /Jorsisted /?$eoms to mo\ii( ovitably lxn'tod to precspitato tho Stati into all the h orrors of civil war. It cannot b"? reasonably presumed that f-eomon w.'1' forever tamely sub mit to having thoi'r promises i ansacket and their private packages torii and scattcrod by t.ho pimps, undfor strappers and plug-u.glies of any so1 of nondesreript pretty .tyrants, or allow B. It. Tillman to blow open their iron safes or break down their doors. How ever, upon tiiis question I am willing to bo governed by the combined wisdom of those with whom I havo beer politically associated. L. W. YOUMA Nti. Fair/ax, S. C., Sept. 3, 181)4. THE ORGANIZED DEMOCRACY John Gary Evans on the Politic? Hit ii.at ion?He Hays the Ilofornaen of Moutli Carolina arc the rPru< Denaooracy?The Houtli and Wen Mus t Combine for Protection urn ltell CP. Soi. ator John Gary Evans, of Ai'ttei Count v, was in Columbia last week and when aekod to give his views 01 tho political situation, he* said that h antici pa tod no trouble at the oloctioi in Novembe r. In res pons o to an inquiry as to wha course he w ould pursue if h'e is eled ed Governor , and upon his o pinions c tho Oeaia^ platform, and as to wha action th o next State Convonti. woul tako on ttio Ocala platform, .Senate Evans r jald. : "B I ajn elected Govornor I". sha! cnaea ,vor to bo tho (Jovornor < ? th whold poopjo, commanding obeo'ienc to t a? will <of tlio majority and pt*< toot ,i0g. Interests of tho mino ritj lam a Democrat, and in en tir ay mpathy with tho Democratic p lal fa/rmas adopted by the party in c on v entlon assembled in Chicago, of whkcl 'Convention I was a member. "Ibollovoin froe coinage of alive in a ratio of Id to 1. The Reformer in South Caro Hna are simon pun mocratfc and have never fought th? pr.rty, but they have fought and wil continue to fight, ?o-calllea Democrats f'loaders, such as M>*. Cloveland, whi *4 >$ '* fi ^ i * TIIITDCT\A V CUDTI , 1 llt/lik7X/a.X , O ?-'.i 1. I I have prostituted tho principles of tin party, ignoring almost every plank o tlie platform. I believe that tho onlj ! salvation for tho Democratic party i. in tho Southern and Western Douio i erats combining and overthrowing the so-called Democrats of the East I who are nothin# but Republicans it disguise. I believe in free trade foi the same reasons that Calhoun am every other Southern Democrat, win recognize that a people dependent upon agriculture, who raise the raw material, ship it to be manufactured and then buy it hack again, can nevei prosper under a Government whiul makes them compote with tho worlt in tho sale of their products and force, them to buy from its protected favor ites. " Tho efforts of Mr. Cleveland to post bofoto tho Democratic party as i martyr to tariff reform is amusing. t< sa/ the least of it. When in his lettoi refusing to sign the Into tariff biil In protends to love the principles o Democracy,and in tho next line showi tho cloven hoof in demanding free raw materials, which materials are now raised in the South and West choapoi than in the Northeast. Ho is painfull,; silent upon tho necessity of free inanu factured products, which alone eai rolievo the farmors of the South am West, who consume those products, o tho burden resting upon them. " As to tho Ocala platform, ever; principle of it is included in tin; Demo eratie nlatform. oxc.ont tho snb-treim ury plan, which has never boon do manded hy tho Farmers' Alliance, but on tho contrary, is simply put forth a: an evidence of tho disease destroying our industries, namely, uu insulUcieni currency to do tho business of tho conn try, and the request for relief fron Congress in this or some bottter way It comes with bad grace from the doc tors of tho nation to dosiro to kill th< patient for tho reason, if it be true that he has made un improper diag nosis of his cwn diseaso. " As to tho.action of the State Demo cratic Convention I havo nothing t< say, except that whatever they do ant whatever platform thoy adopt I wil abide by and strenuously advocate if am nominated for Governor by tin Convention." KAltLE ON 1NI>K1'KN1>KNTISM. He Thinks it Means Nejfro Domini* tlOlt?He ('alls Upon All to Sustail White Supremacy. Editor Hegister : Tho Butler con ferencos, jus reported, are supposed ti indicate that having been defeated a tho recent primary eloctions, tin lienerai win now organ l zo an Indopen dont moveraont, in order thut lie in a; have another chance to be returned ti tiie Senate. Such a movement- wouh be "eoncoived In sin and brought fortl in iniquity." Surely thoro muHt b< some mistake in the published report for it is hard to bolieve thut Senate Iiutlor and his friends, many of when have proved their manhood, couragi and patriotism, in war and in peace would enter upon a venture so fraugh with evil to the State. Senator llum|] ton in 1878 declared that "an Indopen dent was worse than a Radical." Th conditions which inspired this foreibli expression remain unchanged, so lo the word bo again passed down th lino, "an Independent is worse than Radical." An Independent movement agains tiie organized Domacracy could sue ceod only by forming a coalition wit {,^0 black Republicans and this woul eventually result 111 their restoratioi to power. Shall white men be rule by negroes? Shall the State be ugai dominated by ignorance and vice Shall we have negro judges presldini over our courts? Shall South Can linians be again subjected to th insults, SulTering and humiliation o> perienced by them in the dark days ( Radicalism? If not, then rise up.i your might and put down a movemor which to gain a temporary advantag would open Pandora's box and lloo the Stato with evils which will h fastened not only upon you, but upo your children. The duty of the hour compels over Democrat, whether Tillmanite or ant 1 Tillmanite, to light now on comnx ground to sustain white supremacy. jos. ii. eaklk. NO INTERFERENCE EXPKCTEI I j T?ho Congressional Cuimmigti Coi BiW?e Declines to Aid Oener ij'ijpr in His Contest Willi Ti [ man. 1 Hpouial to Ttjo Nowh and Courier. i Washington, September 4.?Son - tor Faulkner of West Virginia, chai t man of tho Congressional Democrat - oommittoo, said to-day that tho 01 i i0ok for tho Democrats retaining ce trol t'10 House in tho next Congre r was growing brighter and bright every day. I asked him what tho coi i mittoo proposed to do in tho way helping the South Carolina Dcmocm ill tho pending contest. Ho ropliod that tho committee won I ,r*tiider some assistance in tho 1st d trWt to Col. Elliott, but in tho oth ' districts thoro is no substantial c I position to the Democratic nomine 4 who were named ut tho recent pi 0 niarios. t Tho committed cannot undortuko 1 interfere with tho Tillman Domocrt so long as they control tho rogul ri Democratic organization and conde , their tight within tho party linen. T ii subject has received some attenti e from tho members of tho commit^ n but thov concluded that it would unwise for them to take any part >t the factional tight. In Col. Ellipjt i- district the Republicans propose >f make a strong contest, and it Is 1: it just that tho committeo should he u mm as lar an it jies 111 mo jhjwot, r similar contests are made in tho otli districts tho com mitten will also rone II such aid and comfort an is at hai o Tho committee does not proposo o overlook any of tho districts In any y- tho btatoa whore thoro ia the alight f, probability of losing a Doinoera 0 vote. t- .Honator Faulkner says ho doo? i >- thin* ^ poaaiblo that Speaker Cri ? Senator fiormau and Bourko Cocki .aro to go in*'' tho South (Carolina on r p aign in the ini^reit of Senator Butl ? v/hilo they may s^nipathlze with h & a.nd hope for hia 8uece.M*? y?t they o 5 not afford, aa Democrata, to oppoae 1 that way tho regular organization, o V.n North Carolina tho committed 9 pe^'ta to havo several contest*. A *V*r' Jjr EMBER 13, 1894; i term 1 nod effort will l>o made to defeat f the re-election of Tom Settle, the " Ha by " member of the House. A CAIjIj TO OIUJAM/U. The DemoerntH Are Asked to Send 1 Delegates an lOxtra Convention tit Columbia V Statement of tJrlev* 1 atices. ? COIAIMUIA, s. c., Sept. 7.?The e.\^ oeutlvo eommlttoe of the now Dotr.o' crattc movement mot tonight and gave i out the following tit midnight: '* "To the Democrats of South Caro1 Una: l'ho following preamble and I veBolutions having been adopted by ti s representative Ixnly of of democrats I'limlnir from 11 larire muioritv of tin> counties in tho Stuto, and having since 3 boon approved by many Democrats in 1 all of the counties of tho State, it be3 comes my duty as chairman of tho >' Democratic conference committee of 3 South Carolina to publish them to the f State, to earnestly urge all tree Demo* H crats to take active part in tho mass f meetings proposed to he held and to 1 send roprosentativo delegates to the ' Democratic State convention therein f recommended. "Thomas W. Cakwihk, 1 " Chm'u Dein. Conference Com." I " To the Democrats of South Carolina : f "Whereas, under the guidance of those so-called Democrats or a majority / of them who have control of the party * machinery in this State, the leaders of * tho rank and file of the party have at* tempted to commit them to the Third t 1'arty and to Populist doctrines, have s alienated us from our follow Democrats f of tlu? Union and have brought the party in South Carolina into reproach ' as to its alignment with the National 1 Democratic platform, adopted false * and undemocratic principles and pro* * mitigated them in the name and under 3 the banner of Democracy, and i "Whereas, the Democratic masses of the State have been grossly betrayed by tho men charged with tho party * management who have usurped tho ' rights and used tho machinery of tho | party for selfish ends, a majority of 1 tho so called State Democratic oxoeuI tivo committee actually permitting 3 another self constituted committee (only claiming to represent a faction of a faction) to assume control of t he party management and in the most lla grant and offensive manner to disfran. ehiso thousands of true Democrats, i "Whereas, a ring has been organized and is exercising the most arbi trary and tyranical power to tho utter i) subversion of the will of the people i t and thereby depriving them of their a political rights. "Now, therefore, be it resolved : y " That we, as true, loyal and uncoin. ......... I i. ?lw. LJ I'll/llIICIII^ I'UHIUVI I UI1U 1 Third 1 'arty plat form re pouted ly (and :i ut the roeont August State convention i of tlie faction now in power) forced h upon our party and hereby pledge the r continued allegiance to true Douioii cratic principles as enunciated in the u last National Democratic convention, i, We feel the absolute necessity of a t complete reorganization of the party i- in this State and invite all truo Demoi erats to assist us in its rehabilitation 0 and in the organization of Democracy i) in South Carolina squarely in line t with sound Democratic doctrine : be it o " further resolved, That we hereby a invite the Democrats of the State of South Carolina to assemble in the court t houses of their respective counties on i- Saturday the 15th day of September, h I Hp 1, or at such other places and inanil nor us they may determine, for the ii purpose of selecting delegates (two for il every representative for the lower it House and the Senate to which the ? county is entitled) to meet in Columbia [r at a convention to be held on the 17th t- day of September ut 8 p. in. for the e purposoof reorganizing the Democratic party in South Carolina, considering >f the political situation of the State and n taaing such action au tiieir coilectivo it wisdom may suggest for tlio public o welfare." d ? THIO l'KIMAKY 8Y8TKM. n Homo Reasons Why I he Party Imw y Hliouhl bo Changed, Editor Register : As the State nominating convention will assemble in Columbia on the 19th inst., and as that convention alone will have full power, when convened, of making any amend'> raents thought necessary to the organic law of the Democratic party of the State, 1 desere to call attention to J, that fact, to the end that delegates t? that convention may have their minds directed to the consideration of contemplated changes, if any, in said oria ganic law. ir- If I read tho public mind correctly, -ic both factions of the Democratic party it- expect that Article VI of the party in- law will bo so amended as to require iss all primary elections for State oflices or including Railroad Commissioner, ir in- tho future to ho made hy a direct voti of for tho candidates for each ollloi its sought, from Governor down, undoi the same rules and methods that now ild govern in primary elootions for Con is- gressmen and Solicitors. Isoonovalh or reason why it should not bo done. Tht >p- only objection I have hoard raised t< ies the change suggested is, that it wouli II- ISIJUI ttW UliKlll Ijr U|7UI1 VUUDU V>V/U III/1U1 that have a largely preponderating to negro population, by depriving thou its of tho power they havo in the preson1 ar system of nominating conventions. I let there is any force in that objection, i ho would apply as well in Congrosslona on and Solicitor primaries ; and yet i hoa 30, no complaint from that source. So be must conclude that there is not mucl in in it. The adoption of the proposo< change would afford every candldat to for a State office an equal opportunit; >ut without reference to locality of iui sip pressing his fitness for theotfice sough If r>y him, and ho would thus bo onabio lor to carry the individual voto, whotho lor by his oloquonco, reasoning powerf [id. virtue, forco of character, person* to magnetism or other winning qualities of who would appreciate the privilege ( oat casting his voto for tho man 01 hi tic choice without too interventions e a second porvon. Besides the princ aot pies of Democracy are at variance wit sp, the present method of nominatin *an State officers. un- Lastly, tho Itoformorsarocommlttc er. by previous declarations to insure I Im the people such change, and if the an- fail to fulfill this moral obligation the > in cannot reasonably hopo to uoservo ar retain thoir oonifUenco aud support, ex- w. ii. Tjmmkuman. do- Timmorinau, S. C., Sept. 3. >1II. ('IiKVKI<ANI> HKNYIMKNTAIi. ' How ii I.ittlo Dliic-KyiMl CJirl Mcctircd II ((OVOI'llllieilt 1'osithlO Kl'NIlK of Shooting Squirrels on an < >I<I I'limul's Plantation. Special to lla- Augusta ( hroniele. W.\SIIIN(iTON, I). Sept. I.? 1 There in a good deal of .sentiment aliout Mr. Cleveland in spite of his big form mid strictly business methods. In a cold and callous way he turned down thousands of oHloo-seekers during the past year and refused favors to his best friends when his judgment ran contrary to theirs, hut before a little blue-eyed girl of 1~> who wanted ! to work, hid big heart melted away. Without the endorsement of a single ( eoiitieian he provided for her as a father would look to the interest of Ills , own child. .lust fifteen miles from Washington ( there lives an old school mate of Grovor Cleveland?William Burr. He owns oOO acres of wooded land just off ( the old State road. He is an old j | bachelor and lives in a quiet and un- , assuming manner, and though so near , Washington has not visited the Capital of his country since Grant's first in- J auguration. The soldier 1 'resident was his ideal, | and since Lee's surrender at Anpomat- , tox old Burr lias been a strict follower , of Republican traditions. During Mr. Cleveland's first administration Burr never visited the White House , nor oven asked the President a favor, and Mr. Cleveland possibly never knew that an old school mate was ] living so near. Representative Compton, who know of the association between the two men in their boyhood, , told tiie 1'resident of Burr's residence and asked if he remembered him. , With that strange memory which never seems to forget a name Mr. Cleveland recalled him and told sever..! , anecdotes which had linked his life with Burr's in their earlier days. ! an,.,., o.a ..i.i m i i - i ?? -- i ' > 1 <1 nun mm- i mi mui\y mini plainer iicuru thill, liis old school nuilu hud not forgotten 111 in ho wrote a letter to the White House, and in his characteristic, , blunt way stated that he was a lie- | publican, and if the President didn't! mind tliut he could come out and shoot | squirrels on his place. He went on to describe, so Compton says, that he had , not allowed a squirrel to be shot on ( his place since the war, and suggested that when politicians became too much for him the President might come and take a crack at some of them. The letter be^an in a very formal way, but , the old farmer soon dropped into a personal address and closed in the following familiar manner: "Now, (Irover, if you don't mind my politics I'll be, mighty glad to see you again and talk over old times." This was a chance out of a thousand lor aii*. vjioveianu. mis mouth fairly watered for those squirrels and his heart yearned for just such an escape from political friends and batterers. Iie told Compton to say nothing about his proposed visit, for he was determined to take his old friend by surprise. Accordingly one morning at day-break, seated in a side bar buggy he started out in quest of Burr's plantation, tie started from his summer home at Wood ley and that day it was given out by his ever faithful Thurber that he was not well and would remain in the country. lie had two men from his placo with him and the sun was well up before | they reached their destination. Break' fast was over and Burr had gone to the postoilico several miles distunt. Mr. Cleveland, without revealing his identity, sat on the front porch to wait for his old friend. lie wius pretty tired and very hungry. It was at this time that Lena Bradford, the heroine of this little story uppearod on the scenes. She lived on the Burr place and had the run of the house. She sat down on the steps in front of Mr. Cleveland, not finding old Mr. Burr at homo and rattled on ul>out crops until she got the President interested. When ho finally suggested that ho wanted some water she went to tho well near by and brought him a gourd full. On learning that ho had had a long ride site volunteered to got him something to oat. She soon had tho conventional country breakfast of ham and eggs spread and the President ate heartily. Shortly after ho had appeased his appetite old Burr came in and old memories wore revived. Before leaving that night ins inqulr ou as 10 mo niswtry 01 lama nrauroni, 1 and found that sho was one of sovoral 1 children of a widow who had rooontly 1 boon appointed postmaster at Colesvillo, the little station whore Burr had gone to got his mail. Apparently whonover ho thought of i his visit to old Burr ho thought of the ' little bluo-oyed girl who had brought ' him water. The episode closed only > last week when Lena was brought to . Washington and installed in a $iM)0 poi sitlon directly under the supervision of > the Secretary of Agrienlturo. The ' people around Colesville say that the ' President has paid Burr several visits f since that morning when Lena Brad* ford served him breakfast. The good 1 people of that town had a greater suri prise in store for them when William > Iiurr, sitting in the postofllco, one day 1 announced that he " rockoned he'd * vote the Democratic ticket next tlino." r mm ? ? m* J A lIOKItlllLH CHIMK I.N GHKSTKK. f The liriital Murder ol' a Young Col* ore<l Woman by a .Man Who lla?l ' Outraged Her?The Disreputable r Hon ol a Itcputable Parmer SusI peeled of the Crime. > FORT Lawn, Sept. 4.?A coroner's 1 inouest hold hero to-day over the body of Mattie Heath, colored, brought out Y the details of the most horrible crime i* ever committed in Chester County, t Mattie Heath, the wife of a young colli orcd laborer in the employ of Col. C. i' Hives, a prominent planter, living fout ?i miles north of hero, was attacked )1 outraged and murdered while return h ing to her homo from a neighbor'* " nouao on laat, I riursday morning, tlx in Mat ult. It appoara that tho younu >f woman had gone homo with anothei i- woman to got some vogotablos for hoi h husband's dinner, ho boing at work 01 K tho public roada that day, and tha having secured hoido roasting earn ahi d started on her return Hinging loudly Suddenly tho woman who had givoi y her tho corn noticed that tho singlnj >y oeasod abruptly, but hoard no outer; id of any kind. This aho states wa about 10o'clock in tho morning. At 0 o'clock In tho ovening Anthon; Iloath returning homo from his day' NO 8. ? work wan mot by bin landlord, Col. Hi vow, near that gentleman's home, and was Informed in a somewhat excited manner that his wife had not been at home since morning, and udI.I... l.w.U I n t ? mm uv unrrv ai n;i in*i . II*' HUTriod home and questioned his children, who said that their mother had gone over to Amelia Marshall'* and had not returned. Somewhat frightened at this unusual occurrence young Heath started in search of his wife, and had not gone two hundred yards bo fore he found her body in a horribly mutilated condition I reside the foot path. Her throat had boon cut from ono car to the other. In r head crushed to pieces with a largo done, her iiody gashed across the abdomen, and finally her online body charred by the hurtling of tho clothing, which tho fiend had lighted with a match after accomplishing iris abject. A local trial justice was immediately summoned, and a jury empanelled an tho following morning to view tho body. The inquest was then adjourned until Saturday morning, sufficient ovlilenco having been taken to fix suspicion upon Lawrence Kives, tho twonty-throo-year-ohl son of Col. C. Kives, tho negro's landlord. ludi^uullcn immediately begun to run high, and justice being despaired of by tho ixeited blacks, throats of lynching were freely circulated. Young Kives, not being under arrest, slipped away luring the night, and on the following morning appeared at tho door of the jail at Chester and demanded protection. Tho inquest on Saturday falling to bring out enough facts for a verdict was adjournen until to-day, the ith, when the presence of young Kives was ,L.... 1 -.1 1- -- A I- ? ? liomiuiiuuu i iy tiiu ntae's uiloi'UCy. Triul Justice C. T. Minors i in mod Wittily telegraphed to Governor Tillrniin, stilting thlit tho prisoner would bt; in great danger of lynching unless liouvily guarded. Attorney Gcnoral Buchanan proceeded to order out tho Let; Light infantry, of Chester, at once, and Itives was brought down on tin; midday train in charge of SlieriIT Hood and twenty-live men with lixod bayonets, who escorted him to tho scene of the in<|tinst. Pacts now brought to light lay tho crime almost beyond a doubt at Kivos' iloor. lie had been known to make improper advances to the young woman on two former occassions, trucks where there had been a sculTle corresponded with the size of his foot and other tracks found in a watermelon patch, where he hud been that morning. Tho clothing and shoes which he had been seen to wear on the morning of tho killing are missing and unobtainable, and his behavior on the evening and night of the same day was most unusual and suspicious. Both lie and his father made great elTorts to criminate an old negro man without the slightest success. The coroner's jury has not rendered a verdict up to this time, but there ohm bo no doubt, iiu to what it will be. Tho best whito people of thooommuni ty tiro highly incensed, and liavo raisod a purse to employ lawyers to prosoouto tho Cose. \ oung Jlivos' roputu tlon in very bad. Ho Isjaecussed of having oominittod an outrage on a young nogrogirl about a year ago, and lias neon whipped by a eominittee of neighbors on account of relations with a negro woman. He is not a bud looking young follow, and carries it olT with a bold face. Ho was brought back to Chester and put in jail tonight, awaiting tho verdict of the jury, which may bo expected in the morning. No further disturbance is expected. Tho blacks are now satistied that they have tho sympathy and support of the best part'of tho community. ?-? KKVOI/r IN Til 10 WKMT. The People There Are of One Accord oil tho truest ion of Finance. | Special to Atlanta Constitution. ! VW t OlIIKT/lfltAVf ll I* i - A i tt aoiuiivi *?,? Lb ia rujjuri* ed hero to-day und credit*, d unions many politicians thut Senator bulmis and Senator Shoup, of Idaho, and Senator Teller, of Colorado, have determined upon a course similar to that pursued by Senator Jones and leave the Republican party. It has been known here for some time past that Senator Dubois was meditating loavlng the Republican party and joining the Democratic ranks, but the report that Senators Shoup and Teller contemplate similar action has created consternation among the Republicans in the city. Senator Dubois himself is the authority that should the next Republican convention fail to act favorably on silver that l>oth he and Senator Teller would walk out of the convention. Ho is not even a protectionist and all his proclivities are toward the Democratic party, if that party continues its tight for the free coinage of silver. I called at the headquarters of the Republican congressional campaign committee, but nothing definite could bo learned there. Chairman Balxiock pretends to hoot at the idea that Mr. I'dlor will renounce the Republican faith, but is mum in regard io Messrs. Shoup and Du)>ois. Since Senator Jones' flop they are prepared for any thunderbolt and do not know whore the lightning will next strike. There is a fever of uneortainty at the Republican j headquarters and the next few weeks may briug forth a decided change in | the condition of tho Republican party which will shako it to pieces in the west and with its record on silver it , can hope for nothing in the south. 9 ' The annual review of tho News and 1 Courier shows that during tho past year more hay was sold in Charleston than In any year, save one, in tho last twenty years ; more corn, by .">0,000 bushels, than in twenty years, and more outs than in any year, but one, in twenty. It is true that more bacon was raised in ' tho State last year than in any year since ' tho war; but the fact remains that > 1,040 carloads, of 41,000,000 pounds, of r bacon wore brought from tho West r j and sold in Charleston during the last 1 ! twelve months. Tho hay was brought k : from tho North and the corn and bacon } ' from the West. None of it was made in South Carolina and a great deal of 1 , it was sold to South Carolina farmers f who should raise their supplies on their f own farms. drains of wheat in Egyptian mummy V cases have boon known to germinate s after lying dormant 3,000 years.